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Patented Dec. 3|, 190|. C. H. LARSUN.

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No. 690,063. Patented Dec. 3|, 190|.

c. H. LABsoN. GATE.

(Application led Sept. 4, 1901.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN Il. LARSON, .OF AVOCA, VISCONSIN.

GATE.

SEECKFXUATJON forming' part of Letters Patent No. 690,063, datedDecember 31, 1901.

V Application filed September 4, 1901. Serial No. 74,341. (No model.)

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Beit known that I, CHRISTIAN, H. LARsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Avoca, in the county of- Iowa and State of W'isconsin, haveinvented a new and useful Gate, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in gates.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction otswinging gates, more especially the means for operating the same, and toprovide a simple and comparatively inexpensive operating mechanismdesigned for enabling the gate to be opened and closed by a person in avehicle or on horseback and capable of permitting a person approachingthe gate at either side to remain on the right-hand side ofthe road andto open the gate, pass through the gateway, and close the gate withoutdismounting from a horse or without leaving a vehicle.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gate provided withoperative mechanism constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig.2 is a plan View ot' the same.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figuresof the drawings.

1 designates a swinging gate, hinged to a post or support 2 and adaptedto open in one direction only,and provided with apivoted latch 3, whichis positively held in engagement with a main keeper 4 by a weight 5. Themain keeper 4 extends from one side of a latch-post 6, and the weight,which is located beyond the gate, depends from the outer end of thelatch-bar, which is extended beyond the keeper, as clearly illustratedin Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings. The latch is connected with theends of an actuating rope or cable 7, which may be constructed ofwire,'hemp, or any other material and which extends from opposite sidesof the gate to uprights 8 and 9. The uprights S and Sl, which areprovided with horizontal supporting-arms 10 and 11., are located at thesame side of the road, and the upright 9 is provided with a supplementalkeeper 12 to receive the latch, whereby the gate is posi- A tivelyheldin its open position. The arms 10 and 11 are provided with guides 14 and15, preferably consisting of pulleys and receiving the actuating rope orcable and supporting the same, and the said rope or cable extendsoutward from the uprights S and 9 to uprights 1G and 17, located atopposite sides ot' the roadway. The upright 17 is located at the sameside of the roadway as the uprights S and ULand the upright 16 islocated at the opposite side of the roadway at a point directly oppositethe upright 8. The uprights 16 and 17 are provided with supporting-arms18 and 19, andthe operating rope or cable extends across the gate fromthese uprights, being supported at an intermediate point by an upright20. The upright 20, which is located at the same side of the road as theupright 16, is providedat its upper end with a horizontal supporting-arm2l, and guides 22 and 23 depend from the arms 18 and 21 for supportingthe gate-actuating rope or cable. These guides consist of pulleysmounted in suitable blocks. By this arrangement the operating rope orcable is looped at each side ot' the gate, and operating ropes or cables24, 25, 26, and 27 are connected with the sides of these looped portionsand are arranged in pairs at each side of the gate. One member ot' eachpair ot' operating ropes or cables is adapted to swing the gate in one"direction andthe other member swings the gate in the opposite direction.The operating rope or cable on the right-hand side of the road,approaching the gate, when pulled opens the gate, and the operating-ropeor cable at the same side of the road is adapted to close the gate aftera person has passed through the gateway. The operating rope or cable 24,which is support-ed by a guide 2S on the arm 10, extends over the pulleyof the guide and is connected with the adjacent portion of the operatingrope or cable at a point between the gate and the pulley. rlhe operatingrope or cable 25 is supported by a guide-pulley 29 on the arm 1S of thesupport or upright 16, and it is connected with the IOO actuating ropeor cable at a point between the guide-pulley and the gate. rTheoperating ropes or cables 26 and 27, which are located at the oppositeside of the gate, depend from guides 30 land 31 of the arms 19 and 21and are arranged substantially the same as the said operating-ropes 24and 25. the actuating-rope is secured to the latch of the gate, and itextends upward therefrom to a pulley 32,1ocatedkat the top of the gate.The pulleys 32 are located at opposite sides of the gate atthe topthereof and the actuatingf rope extends outward from the pulleys, andwhen it is pulled upon it Will lift the latch and release the gate.between its ends to a rope or cable 34, which extends upward andrearward to a pulley 35, and the said rope or cable 34 is provided witha Weight 36, adapted to counterbalance the gate and prevent the samefrom sagging. The pulley 35 is mounted in a suitable block and dependsfrom an arm of the post or support 2.

It willbe seen that the gate-operatin g mechanism is exceedingly simpleand inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readilyapplied to an ordinary swinging gate, and that it will enable the sameto be opened and closed from the right-hand side of the roadWhenapproaching the gate from either direction.

1. The combination with a gate, of a gateactuating rope or cableconnected at its ends with the gate and extending from the same inopposite directions and looped at each side of the gate and crossing thesame, guides for supporting the actuating rope or cable, andoperating'ropes or cables arranged in pairs at opposite sides of thegateand extending from each of the sides of each looped portion of the Eachend ofl The gate is connected actuating ropeor cable, substantially as'deff scribed.

2. The combination with a gate, and a latch mounted thereon, of anactuating rope or cable connected at its ends to the latch and extendingfrom the gate in opposite directions and looped at each side of the sameand extending across the said gate, uprights or posts located atopposite sides of the gate and provided with guides receiving the noperating rope or cable, operating ropes or cables arranged in pairs atopposite sides of the gate and extending-from each side of each loopedportion of the actuating vrope or cable, and guides supporting theoperating ropes .or cables, substantiallyy as described.

3. The combination of a swinging gateprovided with a latch, the uprightsS and 9 located at vopposite sides of the gate and arranged at'the samesideof the roadway, the uprights 16 and ,17, located at opposite sidesof the gate and at opposite sides of the roadway, the intermediateupright20, pulleys supported by the said uprights, a gate-actuating ropeor cable extending from opposite sides of the gate and looped at eachside of the same and supported vby the said pulleys, the operating ropesor cables arrangedl at opposite sides of the gate and extending fromeach side of each looped portion of the actuating rope or cable, andpulleys supporting the operating ropes vor cables, substantiallyas'described..

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHRISTIAN H. LARsoN.

Witnesses:

G. MOORE, S. MOORE.'

